advocet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →advoco, advocare, advocavi, advocatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
call, summon, invite, convoke, call for; call in as counsel; invoke the Gods;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...philosophiae vis, licet totas in hoc vires suas advocet, duram iam et veterem animis extrahet pestem..."
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...veterique tyranno infensum atque olim miserantes Aesona patres advocet an socia Iunone et Pallade fretus armisona speret magis..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...undas an magno Tritone ferat, ventosne volucres advocet an pelago solitam Thaumantida pasci. elicit inde fretis et murice..."